* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( d. 1813 )

* Joseph von Hazzi ( 1768 – 1845 ): Bavarian Privy Councillor

* 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist ( d. 1812 )

She was a daughter of Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1768 – 1816 ) and his wife Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

* 1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

* 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

* 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician ( b. 1768 )

* July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( b. 1768 )

* Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duke of Trévise ( 1768 – 1835 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804

* Casimir, Comte de Montrond ( 1768 – 1843 )

Casimir, Comte de Montrond ( 1768 – 1843 ) was a French diplomatic agent and the son of a military officer.

* Lo speziale ( The Apothecary ) by Joseph Haydn ( 1768 )

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

* 1768 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter ( d. 1839 )

* 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples ( d. 1844 )

Etruria Hall, the family home, built 1768 – 1771 by Joseph Pickford.

* 1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician ( d. 1830 )

* July 28 – Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain ( b. 1768 )

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

Image: Corte maison n ° 1 Place du Poilu. jpg | House of birth of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 )

The Fourier series is named in honour of Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), who made important contributions to the study of trigonometric series, after preliminary investigations by Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, and Daniel Bernoulli.

Joseph was born Giuseppe Buonaparte in 1768 to Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino at Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic.

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), Napoleon's elder brother.

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies and brother to Napoleon I of France.

* Joseph Sydney Yorke ( 1768 – 1831 ), British admiral

Fourier (; ) most commonly refers to Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist, or the mathematics, physics, and engineering terms named in his honor for his work on the concepts underlying them:

* Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist

File: An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768. jpg | An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768

Mortier was born at Le Cateau-Cambrésis on 13 February 1768, son of Charles Mortier ( 17301808 ) and wife Marie Anne Joseph Bonnaire ( b. 1735 ), and entered the army as a sub-lieutenant in 1791.

Corsican was long the vernacular language alongside Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, then it was replaced by French owing to the conquest of the island by France in 1768.

* 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer ( b. 1768 )

* 1768 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer of Jean-Paul Marat ( d. 1793 )

* 1768 – Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French commander ( d. 1815 )

* 1768 – Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer ( d. 1839 )

This visit was followed by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

This visit was followed by the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), the man who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

* July 4 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer and diplomat ( b. 1768 )

* April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer ( d. 1768 )

* October 28 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician ( d. 1768 )

** Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1768 )

* May 1 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( killed in combat ) ( b. 1768 )

* July 17 – Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat ( executed ) ( b. 1768 )

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

* July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter ( d. 1768 )

* March 13 – Michel Blavet, French flutist ( d. 1768 )

Didot ’ s system was based on Pierre Simon Fournier's ( 1712 – 1768 ), but Didot modified Fournier ’ s by adjusting the base unit precisely to a French Royal inch ( pouce ), as Fournier ’ s unit was based on a less common foot.